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16 Mar 12
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figure out what weights you can already lift.
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disciplined sleep, disciplined diet, disciplined work habits, disciplined communication
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different exercises
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identify an area where your discipline is weakest, assess where you stand right now, acknowledge and accept your starting point, and design a training program
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Without acceptance you get either ignorance or denial.
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21 Feb 12
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Acceptance means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.
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The most basic mistake people make with respect to self-discipline is a failure to accurately perceive and accept their present situation.
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If you haven’t consciously acknowledged where you stand right now in terms of your level of self-discipline, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to improve at all in this area. Imagine a would-be bodybuilder who has no idea how much weight s/he can lift and arbitrarily adopts a training routine. It’s virtually certain that the chosen weights will be either too heavy or too light. If the weights are too heavy, the trainee won’t be able to lift them at all and thus will experience no muscle growth. And if the weights are too light, the trainee will lift them easily but won’t build any muscle in doing so.
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Just as there are different muscle groups which you train with different exercises, there are different areas of self-discipline
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24 Dec 11
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muscle groups
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different muscle groups
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disciplined sleep, disciplined diet, disciplined work habits, disciplined communication, etc
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identify an area where your discipline is weakest, assess where you stand right now, acknowledge and accept your starting point, and design a training program for yourself to improve in this area
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12 Dec 11
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The first of the five pillars of self-discipline is acceptance. Acceptance means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.
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If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
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- Do you shower/bathe every day?
- Do you get up at the same time every morning? Including weekends?
- Are you overweight?
- Do you have any addictions (caffeine, nicotine, sugar, etc.) you’d like to break but haven’t?
- Is your email inbox empty right now?
- Is your office neat and well organized?
- Is your home neat and well organized?
- How much time do you waste in a typical day? On a weekend?
- If you make a promise to someone, what’s the percentage chance you’ll keep it?
- If you make a promise to yourself, what’s the percentage chance you’ll keep it?
- Could you fast for one day?
- How well organized is your computer’s hard drive?
- How often do you exercise?
- What’s the greatest physical challenge you’ve ever faced, and how long ago was it?
- How many hours of focused work do you complete in a typical workday?
- How many items on your to do list are older than 90 days?
- Do you have clear, written goals? Do you have written plans to achieve them?
- If you lost your job, how much time would you spend each day looking for a new one, and how long would you maintain that level of effort?
- How much TV do you currently watch? Could you give up TV for 30 days?
- How do you look right now? What does your appearance say about your level of discipline (clothes, grooming, etc)?
- Do you primarily select foods to eat based on health considerations or on taste/satiety?
- When was the last time you consciously adopted a positive new habit? Discontinued a bad habit?
- Are you in debt? Do you consider this debt an investment or a mistake?
- Did you decide in advance to be reading this blog right now, or did it just happen?
- Can you tell me what you’ll be doing tomorrow? Next weekend?
- On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your overall level of self-discipline?
- What more could you accomplish if you could answer that last question with a 9 or 10?
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02 May 11
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Self-Discipline: Acceptance
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Acceptance means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.
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strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
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Which challenges are easy for you, and which are virtually impossible for you?
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there are different areas of self-discipline: disciplined sleep, disciplined diet, disciplined work habits, disciplined communication, etc. It takes different exercises to build discipline in each area.
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Without acceptance you get either ignorance or denial
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14 Apr 11
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If you haven’t consciously acknowledged where you stand right now in terms of your level of self-discipline, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to improve at all in this area.
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if you want to increase your self-discipline, you must know where you stand right now
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there are different areas of self-discipline: disciplined sleep, disciplined diet, disciplined work habits, disciplined communication, etc. It takes different exercises to build discipline in each area.
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The first step is to openly accept where you are right now, whether you feel good about it or not
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Surrender yourself to what you have to work with — maybe it isn’t fair, but it is what it is.
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02 Jul 10
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29 Jun 10
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25 May 10
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31 Mar 10
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The most basic mistake people make with respect to self-discipline is a failure to accurately perceive and accept their present situation
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Do you shower/bathe every day?
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Do you get up at the same time every morning?
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Do you have any addictions
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How well organized is your computer’s hard drive?
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How much TV do you currently watch? Could you give up TV for 30 days?
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How do you look right now? What does your appearance say about your level of discipline (clothes, grooming, etc)
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Do you primarily select foods to eat based on health considerations
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When was the last time you consciously adopted a positive new habit? Discontinued a bad habit?
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disciplined sleep, disciplined diet, disciplined work habits, disciplined communication, etc. It takes different exercises to build discipline in each area.
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Did you decide in advance to be reading this blog right now,
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Can you tell me what you’ll be doing tomorrow?
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you’re more likely to blame the task or blame yourself instead of simply acknowledging that the “weight” was too heavy for you and that you need to become stronger.
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it’s unlikely you’ll be able to hit the proper training zone by accident
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I AM telling you this to impress you, not with me but with yourself. I want you to be impressed by what you can accomplish over the next 5-10 years if you progressively build your self-discipline. It will not be easy, but it will be worth it.
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04 Mar 10
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24 Feb 10
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The first of the five pillars of self-discipline is acceptance. Acceptance means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.
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If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
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If you haven’t consciously acknowledged where you stand right now in terms of your level of self-discipline, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to improve at all in this area. Imagine a would-be bodybuilder who has no idea how much weight s/he can lift and arbitrarily adopts a training routine. It’s virtually certain that the chosen weights will be either too heavy or too light. If the weights are too heavy, the trainee won’t be able to lift them at all and thus will experience no muscle growth. And if the weights are too light, the trainee will lift them easily but won’t build any muscle in doing so.
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Do you get up at the same time every morning? Including weekends?
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Do you have any addictions (caffeine, nicotine, sugar, etc.) you’d like to break but haven’t?
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Is your email inbox empty right now?
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Is your home neat and well organized?
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How much time do you waste in a typical day? On a weekend?
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- If you make a promise to someone, what’s the percentage chance you’ll keep it?
- If you make a promise to yourself, what’s the percentage chance you’ll keep it?
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How well organized is your computer’s hard drive?
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How often do you exercise?
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What’s the greatest physical challenge you’ve ever faced, and how long ago was it?
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- How many hours of focused work do you complete in a typical workday?
- How many items on your to do list are older than 90 days?
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Do you have clear, written goals? Do you have written plans to achieve them?
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How much TV do you currently watch? Could you give up TV for 30 days?
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How do you look right now? What does your appearance say about your level of discipline (clothes, grooming, etc)?
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Do you primarily select foods to eat based on health considerations or on taste/satiety?
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When was the last time you consciously adopted a positive new habit? Discontinued a bad habit?
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Are you in debt? Do you consider this debt an investment or a mistake?
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Did you decide in advance to be reading this blog right now, or did it just happen?
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Can you tell me what you’ll be doing tomorrow? Next weekend?
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there are different areas of self-discipline: disciplined sleep, disciplined diet, disciplined work habits, disciplined communication, etc. It takes different exercises to build discipline in each area.
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works with self-discipline just as it does with building muscle. For example, if you can barely get out of bed at 10am, are you likely to succeed at waking up at 5am every morning? Probably not. But could you master getting up at 9:45am? Very likely. And once you’ve done that, could you progress to 9:30 or 9:15? Sure. When I started getting up at 5am consistently, I had already done it several times for a few days in a row, and my normal wake-up time was 6-6:30am, so that next step was challenging but achievable for me partly because I was already within range of it.
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Progressive training
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With ignorance you simply don’t know how disciplined you are — you’ve probably never even thought about it. You don’t know that you don’t know. You’ll only have a fuzzy notion of what you can and can’t do. You’ll experience some easy successes and some dismal failures, but you’re more likely to blame the task or blame yourself instead of simply acknowledging that the “weight” was too heavy for you and that you need to become stronger.
When you’re in a state of denial about your level of discipline, you’re locked into a false view of reality. You’re either overly pessimistic or optimistic about your capabilities. And like the trainee who doesn’t know his/her own strength, you won’t get much better because it’s unlikely you’ll be able to hit the proper training zone by accident. On the pessimistic side, you’ll only pick up easy weights and avoid the heavy ones which you could actually lift and which would make you stronger. And on the optimistic side, you’ll keep trying to lift weights that are too heavy for you and failing, and afterwards you may either beat yourself up or resolve to try harder, neither of which will make you stronger.
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Without acceptance you get either ignorance or denial.
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None of this just happened. It was intentional. And it certainly didn’t happen overnight. It took a lot of years of hard work. It’s still hard work
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17 Feb 09
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04 Nov 08
JameyI need to pwn my own ass, instead of letting it be pwned.
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25 Aug 08
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17 Aug 08
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12 May 08
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Why is acceptance a pillar of self-discipline? The most basic mistake people make with respect to self-discipline is a failure to accurately perceive and accept their present situation. Remember the analogy between self-discipline and weight training from yesterday’s post? If you’re going to succeed at weight training, the first step is to figure out what weights you can already lift. How strong are you right now? Until you figure out where you stand right now, you cannot adopt a sensible training program.
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Without acceptance you get either ignorance or denial. With ignorance you simply don’t know how disciplined you are — you’ve probably never even thought about it. You don’t know that you don’t know. You’ll only have a fuzzy notion of what you can and can’t do. You’ll experience some easy successes and some dismal failures, but you’re more likely to blame the task or blame yourself instead of simply acknowledging that the “weight” was too heavy for you and that you need to become stronger.
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When you’re in a state of denial about your level of discipline, you’re locked into a false view of reality. You’re either overly pessimistic or optimistic about your capabilities.
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08 May 08
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first step is to openly accept where you are right now, whether you feel good about it or not. Surrender yourself to what you have to work with — maybe it isn’t fair, but it is what it is. And you won’t get any stronger until you accept where you are right now.
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01 Nov 07
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perceive
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figure out
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figure out
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get either ignorance or denial
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fuzzy notion
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reaped
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tremendous
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Surrender
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23 Aug 07
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The first of the five pillars of self-discipline is acceptance. Acceptance means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.
This may sound simple and obvious, but in practice it’s extremely difficult. If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
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I AM telling you this to impress you, not with me but with yourself. I want you to be impressed by what you can accomplish over the next 5-10 years if you progressively build your self-discipline. It will not be easy, but it will be worth it. The first step is to openly accept where you are right now, whether you feel good about it or not. Surrender yourself to what you have to work with — maybe it isn’t fair, but it is what it is. And you won’t get any stronger until you accept where you are right now.
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01 Apr 07
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Self-Discipline: Acceptance June 6th, 2005 by Steve Pavlina The first of the five pillars of self-discipline is acceptance. Acceptance means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive. This may sound simple and obvious, but in practice it’s extremely difficult. If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
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07 Jun 05
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06 Dec 04
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